The project was started by David Oldenkamp, International Documents Librarian at Indiana University. The IGO search is done with GoogleCSE. The list of urls for the search came from the [http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resource/internat/igo.html Northwestern University IGO site]. For questions, comments, suggestions or to submit an IGO to add to the search, [http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/email.php?collectionId=99 email David] or [mailto:jrjacobs@stanford.edu James Jacobs], International Documents Librarian at Stanford University.

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The project was started by David Oldenkamp, International Documents Librarian at Indiana University. The IGO search is done with GoogleCSE. The list of urls for the search came from the [http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resource/internat/igo.html Northwestern University IGO site]. For questions, comments, suggestions or to submit an IGO to add to the search, [http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/email.php?collectionId=99 email David] or [mailto:jrjacobs@stanford.edu James Jacobs], Government Information Librarian at Stanford University.

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'''What it is:''' Using Google Co-op, fed 392 base URLs of IGOs into the search engine. The growing spreadsheet of urls can be found [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p4kyqVh9-WIm95qD2nSS6Sw&hl=en here]. When the search engine is used by a patron, the terms are searched across all of the websites, so if you have the core url: http://www.un.org/ in the database, the search engine will search all of the websites that share the core http://www.un.org/ URL. Here's the [http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006748068166572874491:55ez0c3j3ey|direct URL for the IGO Search Engine].

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'''What it is:''' Using Google Co-op, fed 392 base URLs of IGOs into the search engine. '''[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p4kyqVh9-WIm95qD2nSS6Sw&hl=en Here's the growing spreadsheet of IGO urls]'''. When the search engine is used by a patron, the terms are searched across all of the websites, so if you have the core url: http://www.un.org/ in the database, the search engine will search all of the websites that share the core http://www.un.org/ URL. Here's the [http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006748068166572874491:55ez0c3j3ey direct URL for the IGO Search Engine].

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We've expanded the project to include a Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) custom search engine. Here's the [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pXmk9OIboH3Yk4hmZ-mxbCw&hl=en|spreadsheet of NGOs]. Thanks to David Oldenkamp and Barbara Celone for their work on the NGO search engine. Here's the [http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012681683249965267634%3Aq4g16p05-ao|direct URL for the NGO Search Engine].

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We've expanded the project to include a Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) custom search engine. '''Here's the [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pXmk9OIboH3Yk4hmZ-mxbCw&hl=en spreadsheet of NGOs]'''. Thanks to David Oldenkamp and Barbara Celone for their work on the NGO search engine. Sites were chosen based on their [http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/ consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)] and also collated from [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/ngolinks.html University of Minnesota Human Rights Library], and [http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/ngo_guide/db/a-e.asp Duke University Libraries' NGO Research Guide].

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Here's the [http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012681683249965267634%3Aq4g16p05-ao direct URL for the NGO Search Engine].

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IGO/NGO custom search engines

Welcome to the IGO/NGO custom search engine project.

The project was started by David Oldenkamp, International Documents Librarian at Indiana University. The IGO search is done with GoogleCSE. The list of urls for the search came from the Northwestern University IGO site. For questions, comments, suggestions or to submit an IGO to add to the search, email David or James Jacobs, Government Information Librarian at Stanford University.